The Featured Long Reads excerpt discusses Judis’ central theme: “It’s not about left or right: populism is a style of politics that pits ‘the people’ against ‘the establishment’. Its rise is a warning sign that the status quo is failing.”

Entertainment executive Adam Leipzig raves “I read just about every book that analyzes the entertainment business…Streaming, Sharing, Stealing is the best book on the subject, bar none. Every entertainment executive who hopes to have a job in coming years should read it and follow its prescriptions.“

McKeown’s Essentialism gave Harvey what he needed to get his priorities back on track. “All day long people come up to me… asking me to do things to benefit them and I had to find a better way to operate my days. This was it.”

Steve Olson’s Eruption, praised by judges as “a drama that reads like a tragic thriller” is one of five finalists for The Boardman Tasker Prize. The award is given to authors who have made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature.

Following Hillary Clinton’s inclusion of Robert Putnam’s Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis in her top three policy books, Vox checks in with Robert Putnam to discuss his “we vs. I” view of the election.

From Publisher’s Weekly’s starred review of A Kingdom of Their Own by Joshua Partlow: “American military and political arrogance butts up against deep-rooted cultural customs and family networks throughout this excellent account of a vastly difficult topic.”

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights newsroom announced that David Maraniss’s Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story has won the 2016 RFK Book Award. It was called “an insightful look at Detroit’s history as a once-powerful manufacturing metropolis fueled by the motor industry, but with foreshadowing of an imminent decline.”

The Washington Post’s take on Professor Sundararajan’s optimistic vision for The Sharing Economy, where individuals are empowered by the transition from traditional work to profit off their own assets and time.